Firefox Portable 2.0 Pre-Release 1 (Testers Needed)

Installed over my old version, everything seems fine. Does seem slightly slower, but I think its just me - I installed over RC3, so I doubt there are really any performance issues.

Well done John, keep up the hard work!

Without a prompt, session saving would be disabled, right?
I dont want this feature anyway, but I would add a prompt for enabling session saving if it isnt too much work. With a prompt, its up to each user to choose the way he wants it.
Right now, I'm sitting infront of some pretty old Mac which doesn't allow me to test it right away but in a couple of hours I'll check FFP2Pre1's Wine-ability.

I agree with the thought of allowing the user to decide if they would like this option. I personially will not wish to use the session saver so I personally will disable it. There are others out there though that may wish to have that feature.

A suggestion though about the session saver and CD's... Would it be to hard to add a line or string or what have you that would sense if it is on a writable partition or not and auto turn on and off that feature if they have it enabled? I forsee this being an issue for some people who end up running this from CD (like myself at times) that may have that feature enabled (obvioulsy not me). Would it just error out? Trying to think of a useful addition to the launcher that may help. I kow nothing about coding so I do not know if or how hard that would be to add.

I vote for a prompt.

In the mean time...

Easy instructions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore

This takes care of the tabs and session restore feature at the same time.

BTW installed over your FFP RC3 and worked flawlessly.

EDIT(11/15/2006 16:17 EST)- The license popped up and worked great. And *ahem* of course I read the license *ahem*.

You might want to include instructions about the in place upgrades with regard replacing files. The installer you have made allows you to say "yes to all" when overwriting the previous version. I wasn't sure about it but found out I was OK afterwards.

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Well a prompt would be fine, but is this only for session restore or a complete disable of session restore and all the sub-keys (ex. resume_from_crash) (-> concerning the life span of the usb drive)?

Maybe yes, I am at the moment not very familiar with this new feature, but I know I hate it on my desktop PC with FF2.

What is "\Data\profile\urlclassifier2.sqlite"?

It is 4.48 MB on my computer thats nearly 25% of all the space it takes to ran Firefox Portable.

it works with wine like it should. But the first time I ran it, wine (or firefox) crashed; it just disappeared from my screen. The second (and third) time, everything was normal.

Installed it without any problems. one of my themes was out-dated so I updated it. Also, I'm 99% sure that Minimize-to-tray extension was activated with middle-click, but now it's right-click. Other than those two, everything is working like it's supposed to.

Am I supposed to have the PortableApps.com bookmark? 'cause I don't.
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I'm not sure why session saving would need a prompt more than any other option in FF. I'll be happy either way.

I wonder if I am a bit early to enter localization as a topic.

I have just installed 2.0 P-R1 on top of my German 1.5.

It wasn't to be expected that 2.0 would accept the 1.5 lang-package, so it got disabled and I deinstalled it. From ftp.mozilla.org I retrieved the appropriate de.xpi and installed that (without the locale-switcher). No problem so far: no complaints during the installation, and the language pack displays its presence in the Add-ons dialogue.

But, after restart of Firefox Portable I still have all the english menues. I have also tried

• de- and reinstallation of the lang-pack
• logging of and on
• installing Pre-Release in a fresh directory

all with the same result.

After all this I have done another fresh install of the Pre-Release and done the localization just as described under
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/localization
method 2, installed the locale-switcher extension (2.0) first, then the lang-pack (restarts included). At first nothing much seemed to happen: when setting language to German the menus remained as before, only the description of "English (United States)" switched to "English (Vereinigte Staaten)". Another restart fixed that.

In Firefox Portable 1.5 I have been able to localize by just adding the lang-pack, so I have tried that here as well. But in 2.0 the use of the locale-switcher seems compulsory (correct me if I'm wrong). To wrap it up, localization seems to be working fine if you do it by the book.

FF2 Portable is even better then my U3 version of FF 1.5!!
After I downloaded it it worked fine, No Problems with it, it works great.

P.S. When will the U3 version of FF2 Portable come out?...

I downloaded and extracted to hard drive yesterday, no problems.
I copied my profile over from 1.5.0.8 , no problems.
Was offered the license at first launch, accepted, no problems.
---(Must admit I did not read it!)
Was warned about old extentions, no problems.
Disabled System Restore in about:config , no problems.
Allowed Antiphising, no problems, but think I will disable this.

I think a prompt to disable System Restore would be a good idea.

Tim
Geek w/o portfolio

All this talk about disabling session saver is recommended, but only on flash drives right? Someone who is using other non-flash-type portable devices does not need to disable this right?
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Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool.
Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Teen1: I don't even know anymore.

A prompt would be the best. If you decide not to prompt, then please disable it!

For a portable app it's quite pointless...

Well, I don't know if that is relevant:

I was used that the history of the websites I have visited, was saved.
Whenever I have pulled down the arrow at the end of the line where the URL can be written in (sorry, I am Austrian, I don't know the English word for that part of the menu), all URL I have visited so far where saved in an kind of history.
That still happens as long the FF 2 is running.

But if the FF 2 was shut down and started again, that history is disappeared ..... Well, with the portable FF 1.5 that history remained after shutting down (and starting again).

So, is that a kind of "wrong-user-error", what means, I haven't found the point in the menu-tree where I can activate the function again .... ?
Or is it a kind of bug ?
Or was it an idea of the developers to delete that function ?

However, that fact is very annoying to me.

Running WinXP Home.

Originally, I installed PR1 over my RC3 install. RC3 worked but I hadn't done much with it, preferring to stay with 1.5.0.7. There seemed to be some glitches (including it rejected all but 2 of my extensions), so I deleted all of the PR1/RC3 mishmash and new installed PR1.

The main issue now is that it doesn't shut down. I can select File, Exit or the big red X, it doesn't matter. Oh, the program disappears from the screen ... but ... when I try to restart, Windows says "there is already an instance running ..." and when I look at Process Explorer, sure enough, there is a FireFox running. I have to kill that to restart FireFox.

Any idea whassup?

Oh, I tried your minesweeper. I've always been mystified that MineSweeper had no sound. Neither does yours. I remain mystified.

OOO 2.04 appears no different from 2.03 in Impress. Maybe a little faster. Lots of people complaining on OOO Users that 2.04 won't install. At least we don't have that problem.

Haven't had time to try GAIM or SciTE yet.

-----Paul-----

I've been using RC3 since the day it was released and it's worked flawlessly. I'm using Pre-Release 1 now and it's also working without issues. The program is stored on a Memory Stick and I routinely use it on two different machines with built-in Memory Stick readers. I did have to reset one machine once due to a problem with another program. When I restarted FireFox, it gave me the option of restoring my previous session. That also worked flawlessly. (It would appear then, that session restore is on by default, rather than off.)

I use this daily and haven't had any problems -- installed over the RC3 version

Installation over RC3 went smoothly ("Yes to all"). Said that "I agree", and here we are.

Compared to running FF2 from local HDD, a little slow to start (to be expected) but then no apparent difference in "everyday" usage on home PC.

(I wish all installs of new[-er] software were as easy!)

Using a USB drive. Just upgraded, got the agreement on first start. I must be doing something wrong since it didn't install over RC3 and it seems to be working for others. What's the secret? Copied profile and plug-ins and everything seems to have been picked up and is working ok so far. As far as session saving goes, I don't see the need on a portable drive, but there should at least be a prompt to turn it on or off. EDIT - RC1 seems a little faster.

I now have installed the Pre-Release 1 of FFP 2.0.

I have read, that you think about a prompt for session saving at first start of FFP 2.0. I thought that for now session saving is disabled. But when I go to about:config I found no keys "browser.sessionstore. ...".

That means the session saving for now is not disabled!

Or do I miss something?

Thanks
mosquito

Right, well i don't know if its already been identified but i found this earlier...
I'm using the Gmail Notifier and have it set to open in new tab - when i clicked it eariler it started to load in a new tab but when i clicked over to a preivously opened tab the Gmail page showed for a second or so in this tab before displaying what it should have done.

Don't quite know if thats phrased very well but i don't quite know how to put it - it was a bit of a wierd error.